Interest in personal history as a career is growing. When the Association of Personal Historians was formed in 1995, it had a handful of members. Today that membership has swelled to over 500.
Increasingly people track me down and ask if they should start a personal history business. In order to help you decide if this is your kind of work, I’ve pulled together these articles I’ve written over the past 3 years years.
If there’s a topic you don’t see here and would like covered, please let me know and I’ll address it in a future post.
- What You Need to Know About Becoming a Professional Personal Historian.
- Three Crucial Steps to Starting Your Personal History Business.
- The Best Advice Ever for a Personal Historian.
- 12 Key Tips for Successfully Working Alone.
- The 10 Best Things About Being A Personal Historian.
- The 10 Worst Things About Being A Personal Historian.
- How Much Should You Pay a Personal Historian?
- What Makes a Personal Historian a Professional?
- Are You Doing a Good Job of Conveying the Value of Personal Histories?
- 12 Ways to Ensure Your Personal History Business Fails.
- When Should You Quit Being a Personal Historian and Move On?
- Six Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Personal Historian.
- More Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Personal Historian.
- 10 Commandments for the Professional Personal Historian.
- How to Start and Run a Personal History Business.
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